The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: With a Memoir of Her Life and CharacterLemuel Howell, 1836 - 180 pages |
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Afric's agony amid anguish ANTHONY BENEZET bear beautiful beneath bitter bless bliss blood bosom breast breath bright brother brow burst calm chains cheek clouds crush'd dark dear death deep despairing band dreams e'en earth ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER Emancipation Father feel female fetters flowers forever friends gathered band gaze gentle glance gloom grave grief guilt gush hand happiness hath heart heaven holy hope human Isabel Jehovah JOHN WOOLMAN land lift light limbs look look'd maize midst mind mingled mirth mother neath never night o'er oppression pale night pass'd philanthropy pour'd prayer proud racter round scenes scourge seem'd selfishness shame silent slave slavery sleep slumber smile sorrow soul spirit stood suffering sweet tears tell thee thine thou thought toil torn trafficker in human voice wave weary weep WIFE'S LAMENT wild woman's wrong young
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Page 8 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 36 - Lucy had (and it was a consolation) clung to the belief that, despite of appearances and his own confession, his past life had not been such as to place him without the pale...
Page 102 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 88 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Page 23 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 92 - Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are not.
Page 64 - THINK of our country's glory, All dimm'd with Afric's tears— Her broad flag stained and gory, With the hoarded guilt of years. Think of the frantic mother, Lamenting for her child, Till falling lashes smother Her cries of anguish wild!
Page 58 - Ye who wear a guarded life, — Ye whose bliss hangs not, like mine, On a tyrant's word or sign, Will ye hear, with careless eye, Of the wild despairing cry Rising up from human hearts, As their latest bliss departs ? Blest ones ! whom no...
Page 80 - She laid her hand upon her heart; her eye flash'd proud and clear, And firmer grew her haughty tread;—" My lord is hidden here ! " And if ye seek to view his form, ye first must tear away, From round his secret dwelling-place these walls of living clay!" They quail'd beneath her haughty glance, they silent turn'd aside, And left her all unharm'd amidst her loveliness and pride!
Page 73 - Thou shalt have fame ! Oh, mockery ! give the reed From storms a shelter — give the drooping vine Something round which its tendrils may entwine — Give the parched flower a rain-drop, and the meed Of love's kind words to woman...